Ocupation: Novelist
Life: February 2, 1905 - March 6, 1982
Birthday: February 2
Death: March 6
Lobbying' is the activity of attempting to influence legislation by privately influencing the legislators. It is the result and creation of a mixed economy-of government by pressure groups. Its methods range from mere social courtesies and cocktail-party or luncheon "friendships" to favors, threats, bribes, blackmail.
- Ayn Rand
source: Ayn Rand (1990). “The Voice of Reason: Essays in Objectivist Thought”, p.241, Penguin
topic: Party, Government, Pressure Groups, Mixed Economy, Blackmail, Bribe